Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) commended our airmen, intelligence staff, President Donald Trump, and the national security staff on the successful mission to bomb nuclear facilities in Iran Saturday night.

“I commend our pilots and servicemembers, our intelligence personnel, President Trump, and his national security staff on tonight’s successful and critical operation,” Senator Cruz wrote Saturday night.

“As long as Iran was able to access and conduct activities at Fordow, they could still rush to build a nuclear arsenal,” the senator added.” Tonight’s actions have gone far in foreclosing that possibility, and countering the apocalyptic threat posed by an Iranian nuclear arsenal.”

Cruz’s statement follows the successful action ordered by President Trump to send U.S. Air Force bombers to take out the Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan, as reported by Breitbart News.

The senator’s full statement:

I commend our pilots and servicemembers, our intelligence personnel, President Trump, and his national security staff on tonight’s successful and critical operation.

“The prospect of the Iranian regime acquiring nuclear weapons represents the most acute immediate threat to America and our allies. When the Ayatollah chants ‘Death to America,’ he means it, and the reason he is building nuclear weapons is because he intends to use them. President Trump has consistently and unequivocally stated that those threats cannot be countered without dismantling the Iranian regime’s enrichment capacity. The President and his negotiators spent two months exploring whether the regime would agree to a negotiated settlement that met America’s national security needs. At the end of that period, Iranian regime officials declared that instead of agreeing to a deal they would open a new enrichment facility and install more advanced centrifuges.

“After that declaration, our Israeli allies launched a preemptive attack against the regime and its nuclear infrastructure, which was enormously successful but could not disable the nuclear activities at Fordow, an underground enrichment bunker built into a mountain which was legitimized by the catastrophic Obama-Iran nuclear deal. As long as Iran was able to access and conduct activities at Fordow, they could still rush to build a nuclear arsenal. Tonight’s actions have gone far in foreclosing that possibility, and countering the apocalyptic threat posed by an Iranian nuclear arsenal.